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GAME TABLE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 1913.

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Specification of Letters Patent. gentd Jung 29 1914 Application filedMay 2, 1913. Serial No. 765,031. i

' ToaZlww/m, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTA/ir Aia/inn, acitizen of Sweden, residing atNorwich, -in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Tables, of whichthe following is a specication.' y

This invention relates to improvements in game tables and moreparticularly' to such tables upon which gaines are played with balls andpins, somewhat' after; the manner of ten-pins. Its object is to producea table vo-f this classin which the pins after beingl knocked downby theballs may be ingeniously reset through the medium of their connecti'onto spring-pressed movable posts adjacent thefar end ofthe table whichareactuated by a plurality of ,lug-bearing disks mounted upon a commonshaft rotated by a crank'arm. 'A ball return is also a feature of thetable.

With the foregoing and other objects in view-the invention consists inthe .combination'and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter-fullydescribed in the' following speciication, pointed out-'in the claims andillusported atone end upon suitable posts 2, restchutes adjacent saidball race, Waysc'onnecting saidball raceand inclined chutes,l Apinsdisposedupon one end of said ball race, 'connected uprights disposedvadjacent the.

trated in the accompanying drawings which forma part of saidspecification and 1n which- Figure a plan of my game table. Fig.

'2 is a longitudinal section in side elevation.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the -pin resetting mechanism.' Ifig. 4 is afront view of the same. n

Like reference characters indicate correspending parts throughout theseveralviews.

`My table comprises a level ball race 1 supingupon the floor or othersupporting s urvface and at the other end merging into linclined ways3,- 3 which merge i'nto lateral inclined chutes 4, 4 that extend tothe'far end of the ball race. The end ofthe table adja- -cent 'the ways3, 3 is vprovidedwith aplurality of apertures 5 over each of which a pin6 is disposed that is connected b a flexible member 7 passing throughtheta le aperture and over a pulley 8 secured to the under surface ofthe ball race to one of the pulleys 9 disposed upon supports 10. securedin the floorat the far end-ofthe table; from .the pulleys 10 theflexible members 7 extend to and about pulleysll disposed upon'shafts12, 12 `journaled in bearings secured to one of the uprights 13,13disposed upon the floor adjacent the table end. From' the pull tion leys11 the flexible members 7 are extended and connected to posts 14extending through apertures in a shelf 15 connecting the said uprights;4posts 14 being retained in posiresting upon the shelf 15. Each post 14is provided with a tooth 17, notwo of said teeth being disposed in thesame horizontal plane.

The upper'ends of the uprights 13, 13 are u y springs 16 which arefastened to and. encircle them, the lower' end of said springsconnectedilby a crank shaftv 18 provided with a handlel 19 and4 uponsaid shaft a plurality of disks 2 0, one disk for each post, aremounted; each of said disks being formed with .a plural-ity of lugs 21upon its periphery which, as the crank shaft is rotated, are adapted forengagement with the-teeth 17.

Operation: A ball 22 is rolled along the ball race -from the end lremotefrom the lways 3, 3 toward the pins 6. A pin struck by thel ball will beknocked down causing the flexible member 7 toexert a slight pull on thepost 14`connectedto said pin against 'the tension of the spring 16; theball will roll olf the race over one of the ways 3 and into the chute4and gravitate to its starting point. rIhe upset pin is reset in thefollowing manner: Oscillation of the crankl shaft 18 will cause oneofthe lugs 21 of one of the ydisks 2O to engage a tooth- 17 of theadjacent post 14 thus. raising said post partially out o f its seat andcausinggthe fiexible member 7 to exert a strain upon the pin 6 againdisposing it: in'` an upright position at' right angles to the ballrace.

What is-claimedv is A 1. In a game`table, a ball race, inclined oppositeend of said ball race, spring-pressed posts carried by said uprightconnections, flexible means connecting said springpressed posts and theaforesaid pins, a tooth carried by each of said spring-pressed posts, acrank shaftjournaled in said uprights and means carried by'said crankshaft for engagement. with said teeth whereby' said spring pressed postsmay be moved in their seatsV to cause .pinsto vassume anl uprightposition.

2. In a ame table, a ball race apertured ball race; ways connecting saidball race and 'at one en inclined chutes adjacent said ed in saiduprights and disks mounted upon said crank shaft provided withperipheral lugs for engagement With the Said teeth, singly, as saidcrank shaft is rotated.

1n testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aixed mysignature in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

GUSTAF ALMEN.

l/Vitnesses:

CHARLES W. PEARsoN, ANDREW SWANBERG.

